‘Insidious: The Red Door’ Scares Up Fiery P33.1M Gross, Biggest 2023 Opening Day in PH

Philippine horror fans flocked to Insidious: The Red Door on its opening day July 5 including unprecedented sold-out midnight screenings, scaring up a record-breaking P33,141,456 opening day gross. This is the biggest opening day box office take for a theatrical release so far this year, remarkably outgrossing the first-day numbers of superhero blockbusters and epic action adventures, such as Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania, John Wick: Chapter 4, Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, Fast X, The Little Mermaid, Transformers: Rise of the Beasts and Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse. The opening day performance of Insidious: The Red Door, the latest and final installment in the fan-favorite franchise, also broke the record for biggest horror opening day of all time in the Philippines, besting the Day 1 numbers of the previously released Insidious films, as well as The Conjuring, IT and The Orphan movies, The Nun, Annabelle: Creation and local titles Deleter and Feng Shui. The Top 20 cinemas and their Day 1 grosses: SM North EDSA (P1.92M), SM Megamall (P1.86M), SM Dasmariñas (P894K), SM Fairview (P781K), SM Clark (P748K), SM Davao (P705K), SM Marikina (P616K), SM Seaside Cebu (P600K), Fishermall (P590K), SM Iloilo (P583K), SM Mall of Asia (P503K), SM Grand Central (P484K), SM Baguio (P435K), SM CDO Downtown Premier [...]